The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been pivotal in providing food assistance to hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis, displaced by the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. In response to the massive influx of IDPs, which constituted almost 10 percent of the country’s population, and their precarious food security situation, the World Food Programme started in Azerbaijan with emergency operations in 1994, aiming to increase access to food for highly food-insecure IDPs in rural areas. Since 1994, WFP has provided a total of 164,000 metric tons of food at the cost of US $115 million and distributed to up to half million IDPs (see table). Following several phases of emergency operations, WFP shifted the nature of activities from relief to recovery in 1999. Under the Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) WFP aimed to promote food security for the most vulnerable IDP population through the General Food Distribution (GFD).